Rain. All morning. Rain most of the afternoon. Stopped about 4pm - and finally the low cloud that had hidden Exmoor lifted. Cloudy but dry now - hoping for something more summery this coming week. But I'm not holding my breath!
What a strange country we live in! SV, and my sister who lives on the edge of Dartmoor, have had a wet day, and I have spent most of the day watering garden and allotment, and now sitting outside on the patio trying to get cool - helped by a glass of cold beer. As a Cornishman let me wish everyone in the West Country a much nicer day tomorrow!
Thanks for those good wishes dmball - I hope (fingers crossed) that it will be better tomorrow. It has been galling to see pictures of (and hear from friends on the eastern side of the country) heatwaves, wall-to-wall sunshine etc etc. On the plus side, I haven't had to water the garden (apart from pots) and I live in hope of better weather to come. I've just seen the forecast for the region, and it looks as if things may just be looking up.
Posh, you are not alone we finally got those light showers around four tonight. It went dark next minute I thought someone was throwing gravel at the window, you could not see out for the deluge which turned to heavy rain and it still is, so much for light showers then. It has become much colder tonight as well. Weather forecasters aside we have tomorrows mysteries to look forward to.
Well, Frank it would be so boring if our weather was predictable. Whatever would we find to talk about? And as for the weather forecasters - I sometimes think they must rely on the odd bits of seaweed outside the back door! Certainly cheaper than the multi-million poundsworth of computers, anyway - and just about as accurate!
Hi Frank! Whenever I hear a weather forecast, I'm reminded of my ex (and now late) OH's versions of what we might expect . As an airline pilot (ex R.A.F.) he used to say that the Met Office bods boasted that their forecasts were 40% accurate. .....................
I realise that that a simple 180 deg. version of that is too simple a formula (in which case they'd be 60% accurate!) but sometimes I think that I'd be better relying on a fircone/bunch of seaweed/achey bunion etc etc................. Cheers! Ma.
Shrinking Violet - that's the price you pay for living in such a beautiful corner of our island, I still think the moors are more beautiful when the mist is rolling across. I'm sure I'd change my mind pretty quickly if I had a garden down there though...
Posh, we would find something to discuss, we appear to have similar backgrounds when it comes to farming experience and animals, then there could be zinc buckets compost and manure, over a nice Devon or in your Case a Somerset scone piled high with cream and jam. I smiled at Dmball, what a strange country we live in?, it is not a strange country just a strange situation. A Large open Ocean to the west subject to winds and currents, a large frozen Ocean to the North, the North sea higher at one end than the other and open to the Siberian icy winds, plus a large heated area to the South, it is a wonder we are still here. I think Posh we have enough to keep the discussion going until our tongues wear out. Or should that be fingers?
Ah, yes - we must be grateful, Leggi. The countryside here is beautiful, and the price we pay for our bit of a "green and pleasant land" is the copious amount of rainfall. At least the moor (when the cloud lifts) is just about at its best right now - purple with heather, with golden gorse, making it look like a sumptuous patchwork. And on the plus side, when it comes to gardening, I can grow all sorts of things that would be considered tender in other parts of the country. (I even left - well, forgot about to be honest - a succulent houseplant out last winter - can't think of its proper name, but we call it the money plant) and it survived and thrived!
And Frank - a Somerset cream tea adds inches to the waist just thinking about it! (I think the difference between Somerset and Devon is the order in which you put the clotted cream and jam on the scone. Makes no odds to me - it all tastes divine!).
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Rain. All morning. Rain most of the afternoon. Stopped about 4pm - and finally the low cloud that had hidden Exmoor lifted. Cloudy but dry now - hoping for something more summery this coming week. But I'm not holding my breath!
Thanks for those good wishes dmball - I hope (fingers crossed) that it will be better tomorrow. It has been galling to see pictures of (and hear from friends on the eastern side of the country) heatwaves, wall-to-wall sunshine etc etc. On the plus side, I haven't had to water the garden (apart from pots) and I live in hope of better weather to come. I've just seen the forecast for the region, and it looks as if things may just be looking up.
Posh, you are not alone we finally got those light showers around four tonight.
It went dark next minute I thought someone was throwing gravel at the window, you could not see out for the deluge which turned to heavy rain and it still is, so much for light showers then.
It has become much colder tonight as well. Weather forecasters aside we have tomorrows mysteries to look forward to.
Frank.
Well, Frank it would be so boring if our weather was predictable. Whatever would we find to talk about? And as for the weather forecasters - I sometimes think they must rely on the odd bits of seaweed outside the back door! Certainly cheaper than the multi-million poundsworth of computers, anyway - and just about as accurate!
Hi Frank! Whenever I hear a weather forecast, I'm reminded of my ex (and now late) OH's versions of what we might expect . As an airline pilot (ex R.A.F.) he used to say that the Met Office bods boasted that their forecasts were 40% accurate. .....................
I realise that that a simple 180 deg. version of that is too simple a formula (in which case they'd be 60% accurate!) but sometimes I think that I'd be better relying on a fircone/bunch of seaweed/achey bunion etc etc................. Cheers! Ma.
Shrinking Violet - that's the price you pay for living in such a beautiful corner of our island, I still think the moors are more beautiful when the mist is rolling across. I'm sure I'd change my mind pretty quickly if I had a garden down there though...
Posh, we would find something to discuss, we appear to have similar backgrounds when it comes to farming experience and animals, then there could be zinc buckets compost and manure, over a nice Devon or in your Case a Somerset scone piled high with cream and jam.
I smiled at Dmball, what a strange country we live in?, it is not a strange country just a strange situation. A Large open Ocean to the west subject to winds and currents, a large frozen Ocean to the North, the North sea higher at one end than the other and open to the Siberian icy winds, plus a large heated area to the South, it is a wonder we are still here.
I think Posh we have enough to keep the discussion going until our tongues wear out. Or should that be fingers?
Frank.
Ah, yes - we must be grateful, Leggi. The countryside here is beautiful, and the price we pay for our bit of a "green and pleasant land" is the copious amount of rainfall. At least the moor (when the cloud lifts) is just about at its best right now - purple with heather, with golden gorse, making it look like a sumptuous patchwork. And on the plus side, when it comes to gardening, I can grow all sorts of things that would be considered tender in other parts of the country. (I even left - well, forgot about to be honest - a succulent houseplant out last winter - can't think of its proper name, but we call it the money plant) and it survived and thrived!
And Frank - a Somerset cream tea adds inches to the waist just thinking about it! (I think the difference between Somerset and Devon is the order in which you put the clotted cream and jam on the scone. Makes no odds to me - it all tastes divine!).